educatingforaction - School Wide Initiatives

Litter-free lunches - ie. Trashless Tuesdays
Digital newsletter - sending newsletters home using an email database - Bird's Hill currently does this, 90% of families get their newsletter by email.
Paper reduction - sending notes home digitally using an email database. I plan to use my tech time to help teachers get this set up. Leslie
Hour without Power

The following ideas were taken from Manitoba Education Website -
http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/esd/eco_globe/awareness.html

announcements, notices, and messages that reinforce awareness of sustainability**
- anti–bullying campaigns
- challenges and reminders to reduce waste, energy, water etc
- presentations from organizations such as Conservation Manitoba
- Community service programs and volunteer programs that support social well-being
- cyber-bullying information
- Earth Day awareness programs
- recognition of international days related to social, environmental, and economic health and well-being such as World Water Day
- Green Kids programs
- healthy and/or garbage-less lunches
- awareness and promotion of personal safety
- posters, audio-visual, or multimedia presentations that focus on health of the environment, of society, and of the economy
- guest speakers and community fieldtrips related to sustainability themes
- professional development time allotted to ESD and to research on sustainability
- recycling programs where students and staff participate
- teaching that promotes and encourages practices of active, responsible citizenship
- school vision, mission statement and student code of conduct that reflect eco-citizenship and ESD principles.
- students collaborate in shared studies on ESD issues
- teachers collaborate to plan ESD themes and studies
- sharing of ESD information and activities between home and school, by newsletters, school websites or other means
- student assemblies that include ESD related messages or presentations
- student presentations and activities are planned to include a component of eco-citizenship and environmental responsibility
- students learn about the consumer society and sustainable consumption
- presentations by Take Pride Winnipeg
- school establishes and publicizes a no-idle zone
- school campaign to encourage bicycle use
- school establishes and maintains bicycle racks
- school encourages public transit and ride-sharing
- school and class celebrations of ethno-cultural diversity
- student-produced videos and audio-visual productions dealing with sustainable lifestyles
- school welcoming programs and policies of inclusion